Tasteful friends, Baz Luhrmann Lists Decoratively Dramatic Darlinghurst Mansion

As someone who grew up on Bellevue Hill, I have one word to say: "Darlinghurst?"

Just the wallpaper is over the top.

I like it a lot. It's not my taste or how I would do my house but I can still say I like it a lot.

Very "Picnic at Hanging Rock".

Agree with R3. Not the way I would decorate a house. But no one can say he doesn't know what he is dong.

If I could kill and get away with it to buy Jeff Bridges' home, I would.

It's funny I'm usually never a fan of wallpaper but I love all the wallpaper choices here and the way they look . Especially the entry way. I'm getting ready to do some redecorating and upgrading maybe I should give wallpaper a second thought. I really, really like the choices here. Love the library in the house.

I love wallpaper, but the prints he's chosen are too large and bold for those rooms. Otherwise, it's not that bad, although all his furniture looks cheap and brand new. But I was expecting it to be filled with riotous nightmares of color (like his movies).

The wallpaper seems perfect.

You guys think he decorated it. His wife is a three time Oscar winning production designer, she does all his films.

Anyone know which part of Darlinghurst this is in? Used to live there and it doesn't look familiar...

That was horrible! I know they want it to be stylish and avant-garde but how tacky is it to put a dual vanity in the foyer? Of course, let's also paint it cliche black! I just feel nauseous looking at those photos. Oh, and let's put the surfboard coffee table ten feet away from the sofa so that when you try to sit your glass of wine down you have to really stretch! Idiots

For me, there was just too much going on in each room, too much movement, color, texture, stuff - it was not relaxing.

Every room gave me the same feeling as when I see a hoarder house (sans filth) - crammed full and busy.

Isn't that used as a location for the Miss Fisher Mysteries?

The dual vanity is not in the foyer- different wallpapers. I like how they tried to stay true to the period in which the house was built, but update it. The wallpaper is the scale that would have originally been used when the house was built.

I love it. As others have said, it wouldn't have been what I'd have chosen but it works. It's not the standard beige / neutral / brown / bleugh color palette, it's tasteful and interesting.

I really like it, too . . . I just wouldn't want to be drunk and lost in it.

r11 - it's 2 Darley Street, Darlinghurst

I really love most of the wallpaper, but it clashes with some of the modern furniture.

The wallpaper!! Ack!!! especially the ferny, leafy shit

I'm pro wallpaper and pro this entry way. The rest of the house was so dull in comparison, I was kind of surprise. This is BAZ we are talking about here. He needed that AMX dress costumer designer to liven it up a bit.

bump

Yuck.

I like it. Each room has its own unique character but it blends together into a theme.

I expected to hate it but it’s pleasant enough. Not offensive to my eyes at all.

Russell Crowe had a great home like that on the waterfront. it's pretty cool and not too out there considering it's Baz and his equally out there wife.

He is such a QUEEN. Same with Alex Perry.

He's married to a woman?!!!

Both Baz and Alex are...........

He has to be gay right?

“Welcome to my house; Wash your hands.” I love it.

The black baseboards are exquisite. As a gayling I stripped Pullman row house baseboards of Barcelona shit Brown paint only to find that flat, black layer. The black color helped hide soot.

I’d love to feel the fabric on the dark blue chairs and matching sofa.

The decoration would all be down to Catherine.

I like the black and gray wallpaper (love the light blue one), but hate the reddish brown one in the living room. The furniture is for the most part pedestrian (except for the dining room which looks great). Very odd staging, because the kitchen looks so bland and subdued like the bedroom and the room with the small round table or the library area. And then you have the bold rooms with the wallpaper.

Darlinghurst....close to all the rentboys down by the old jail

I love the interior design. Finally something that has personality and doesn't look like an Ikea showroom.

The floor plans are awful, messy and impractical though. If structurally possible, I would knock down some interior walls and open up the place. All those narrow corridors make me feel claustrophobic and give the house a hotel-like feel. I'm also not fond of the location, too far away from the beach and the harbour. For that kind of money I prefer living in Vaucluse, Balmain or Mossman. Even Potts Point is nicer than Darlinghurst.

The floor plans are awful, messy and impractical though

It's 100 plus years old and has been added to countless times, what do you expect?

That's not an excuse R35.

What's with the million of small photos all over the walls. I know that's very popular in the US. So ugly and tacky.

R34, R35 If you look at the floor plan you will see there's just one door on each floor breaking the barrier between the family rooms and the servant rooms.

P.S. Luhrmann makes appallingly confected, utterly-fake movies full of CGI and camp.

I'm not American but I'm surprised you Americans let this utterly camp non-American steal American icons — such as 'Gatsby' and Elvis and turn them into fake Uber-Camp.

R39, we also guzzle the jizz of Lars Von Trier. It’s just that we haven’t seen any of his real estate porn, yet. Be patient.

A bit too dark and oppressive. Next!

With the exception of the library, I thought it was a bit too dark. But it was interesting and has character.

better photos

Baz doesn't make super hero movies (yet). He's a star in my book.

Why is the grand piano directly in front of the windows? That seems weird to me unless a member of the household plays the thing regularly. If it's only used on special occasions, stick it in a corner.

Such wealth ! Such ostentation ! SIX candy bowls on that huge dining room table !!

Love the deep wraparound verandah, the tiles and the black japan paint work. Could have had some lighter (but still original) wallpaper. The wide central corridors and verandahs are a good design for Sydney summers, keeps the house cool and catches the sea breezes.

It's so very 2015. I wonder why.

Six bedrooms; I wonder why.

Why are you enabling the idiot thread bumper?

Each room looks like it belongs in a different house. No uniform aesthetic.

R50 You can't expect a house which has had ten different owners to have a uniform aesthetic.

I know the building and I'm fairly certain it was used a boarding house for about 60 years. The suburb was for the gentry in the 1880s but for gangsters and prostitutes in the 1920s-1990s.

This house would have had a good-sized garden but now it's built upon by ugly flats.

What was it initially used for R51? Looking at it on google maps it seems there were 2 add ons to the original building.

Most old buildings in Sydney have a mould problem on the ground floor because the builder didn't insulate the building against rising damp.

I like the interior design but otherwise the building and the location is a big NO for me.

Ahhh the library. I'd love to get lost in there.

This is quite nice, I like the wallpaper everywhere.

It isnt quite my thing but its interesting and not bland unlike so many celebrity homes

Not as bad as I feared, but I would amend OP's statement to say Luhrmann's FILMS are not for those prone to epileptic seizures.